Mountain Dew is a lost[1] 1917 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Margery Wilson.
[2][3] As described in a film magazine,[4] J. Hamilton Vance (Gunn) goes to the mountains to find new material for a novel.
Vance is successful in teaching the girl to read and write and, although he is suspected of being a revenue agent, he manages to make a few friendships.
He marries Roxie and by promising to become a partner in their distillery of illicit liquor, he is allowed to continue on his way unharmed.
The Chicago Board of Censors cut a scene with a boy shooting Sears and three racist subtitles, "Do you care so much for education that you'll see a nigger hold a gun to your pap?